Lead Engineer / Architect
Location: DE, BE, Berlin
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Director
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Function: Engineering

Company profile:
Startup Institute is the #1 career accelerator, offering transformative educational experiences for career changers and recent grads that combine hard skills with cultural acumen to drastically increase the velocity and impact of startup employees THROUGHOUT THEIR CAREER. We cultivate the human capital high-growth companies need to succeed.

Job description:
Are you curious in nature? Do you like taking big swings at hard problems? Do you like creating elegant, scalable technology answers to make life more efficient?  Can you easily whip together a blend of open-source, proprietary software, and your own voodoo magic into a stable, efficient and reliable solution, with minimal defects?We are looking for a lead engineer and architect to spearhead our forthcoming technology initiatives, and this is a crucial leadership role for the company as we expand our offerings into the digital realm.We are looking for people to solve massive problems without excessive meetings or micromanagement, and as a company focused on helping people have an impact in their careers, we are looking for teammates who have a similar passion.As the Lead Engineer / Architect, your primary responsibilities include:Committing code and deploying, dailyScoping, managing and reporting on the development pipeline to all stakeholdersCorralling diverse technology solutions into a cohesive and integrated architectureDeveloping and architecting from the front-end all the way to the data modelLeading, growing and mentoring a development teamWorking cross-functionally with marketing, operations and product leadership to identify technical requirementsThis opportunity might be for you if you are:Architecting -- you love development for its puzzle pieces, how they connect with each other to develop a full picture, and keeping them all in appropriate focusCourageous -- you’ve got a strong sense of self and comfort in the face of ambiguity and difficulty that gives others strengthInterdisciplinary -- you bring coding chops to the table as well as a knack for design, project management, and physical education, aka elbow greaseExperimenting -- you tinker on a regular basis, pinpoint what worked, what didn’tForce Multiplier -- you are capable multitasking, and can manage a team to achieve at a greater rate

Requirements:
3+ years experience with full-stack web development in Python or Ruby on RailsGood grasp of MVC software design patternsStrong front-end knowledge including Javascript fat-client applications using jQueryFamiliarity with Agile development including SCRUM and/or KanbanExperience interacting with RESTful APIs, JSON-RPC and web service architectureSuccess building products with integrated data capture for A/B testing, optimization and user behavior

Benefits:
We are:- a fun, supportive team that spends more time laughing than doing anything else- a group passionate about improving people’s lives through knowledge and network- really driven by our mission to help people align their passion with profession- a company that helps growth-minded talent meet high-growth companies